When I say, "Would you like to leave a voice mail?" I do not mean I am the voice mail service. Duh.
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
vw bug - Jun 09, 2005 5:51:44 am PDT #3661 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Tom Scola - Jun 09, 2005 5:52:40 am PDT #3662 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Say, "Do you want to be forwarded to his/her voicemail?"
JZ - Jun 09, 2005 5:56:27 am PDT #3663 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
When I say, "Would you like to leave a voice mail?" I do not mean I am the voice mail service. Duh.
I am the anti-vw, apparently. My boss is violently against voice mail, so my conversations usually go like this:
Me: He's not in right now, but would you like to leave him a message?
Caller: Oh, yes, please!
...
...
...
Me: Hello, are you still there? I'm ready?
Caller
(baffled and oddly wounded):
Oh. I thought I was going to voice mail.
Me: I
am
the voice mail.
Lilty Cash - Jun 09, 2005 5:56:29 am PDT #3664 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Gworf.
(Gronk is too pointy a word for me this morning.)
vw, you rule.
Don't wanna go to work. I even have the weekend off, and getting these next two days out of the way makes me crankypants.
-t - Jun 09, 2005 6:00:11 am PDT #3665 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have had exactly the same conversation as JZ re: voicemail so many times...
Why am I not getting up and getting coffee? Getting coffee before I've had coffee is apparently too much for me. I'm trapped in a coffeeless conundrum.
Calli - Jun 09, 2005 6:02:07 am PDT #3666 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Getting coffee before I've had coffee is apparently too much for me. I'm trapped in a coffeeless conundrum.
I've had that conundrum. Still have the resultant burn scars.
Cashmere - Jun 09, 2005 6:03:21 am PDT #3667 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I took him to a tutor to help him make the big jump from whole words he had memorized and sounding things out.
Whole language learning vs. phonics has always made me nuts. I learned via phonics but my SiL who is studying elementary ed. insists that the whole language approach is best when learning to read. I've seen an funny email joke that goes around that is horribly misspelled but easy enough to read because our minds recognize the words with only the first and last letters correct--the middle parts don't mean so much.
I get that once we know the words they're easy to recognize, but does that make learning them easier? I'm torn. I love phonics--in spite of the fact that you have to learn so many exceptions to the rules.
Lee - Jun 09, 2005 6:03:29 am PDT #3668 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Instead, I go to work.
I DON'T.
hehehehehe
-t - Jun 09, 2005 6:06:54 am PDT #3669 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What is whole language learning? Do kids not sound words out anymore? What do they do if they encounter a word they've never seen before?
Emily - Jun 09, 2005 6:21:00 am PDT #3670 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I get that once we know the words they're easy to recognize, but does that make learning them easier? I'm torn.
Torn is a good reaction. Apparently, some kids learn better one way, some kids another (which drive a lot of people crazy who can't seem to get their heads around the idea of there not being One Right Way).